Score Sample

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The choir use a video scoring system, which is
a sequence of word, phonetic, fricative, and plosive fragments
scrolling across the screen. The sequences are laid out across
the four voices (Soprano+Alto+Tenor+Bass) and the choir
vocalise the letters as they scroll over a red line.

The choir are also asked to follow video
sequences with the instruction to vocalise the sounds they
imagine the video would be making, muchlike a foley artist. At the beginning of the accompanying
video there is footage of a match stick being struck back and
forth in a looped sequence. At the end, the match sparks a
flame and burns in slow motion, showing a transformation of
this visual motif. The vibraphone player complements this by
brushing across sandpaper with a small piece of wood, back and
forth repeatedly at varying speeds and pressure. This
relationship to me represents ideas of resistance, tension and
friction. Much like the friction of a bow on strings, it slips
and sticks.

The structure of the ensemble part is laid out
as 3 repeated sections much like the 3 by 3 grid of the ocean
footage used in the accompanying video, as it crashing against
the rocks in different temporal states.

A section in the score asks the choir to
whisper short quotes from parents describing the mental state
of their children living in Australian immigration detention
centres such as: "Open and close, open and close", "The locks
and the chains", "I am a bird in a cage", "I am an animal".
These were taken from the National Inquiry into Children in
Immigration Detention: Mental Health of Children in Immigration
Detention, 2004

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 3 performance parts (46p. -- B4 (landscape))